About This Gigapan

Seacliff at Ft Ord Dunes St park eroded into Quaternary sand dune deposits. This is the fastest eroding stretch of coastline in California. Stillwell Hall, an Army recreational hall, stood on top of the bluff to the right before it was demolished in 2003. Seacliff erosion would have caused the building to fall into the ocean had it not been demolished.

Paleo-soil horizons visible in the seacliff indicate earlier episodes of dune sand depostion that have now been buried by the active dunes that form the tops of the bluffs.